Amalia Ortiz, Tejana actor/writer/activist. Now living in South Texas, Amalia Ortiz is
the writer and composer of the new Latino musical Carmen de la Calle, coming to UT Austin in Spring 2012. Amalia is also creator and star of Otra Esa on the Public Transit.
A powerful one-woman stage show about destination and destiny, performed at San Antonio's Guadalupe Theater and Talento Bilingüe de Houston. Amalia performed on three seasons of Russell
Simmons Presents Def
Poetry on HBO and the NAACP Image Awards on FOX.
She also stars in the award-winning independent film Speeder Kills. This high-energy film had its national broadcast premiere on SiTV.

Poetry awards include: team 2nd place at the National
Poetry Slam; first Latina to reach the National Slam
finals; San Antonio Puro Slam MVP and 3-time champion;
San Antonio Current editors' "Best Local Poet"; the Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Award,
from Sandra Cisneros; Open Slam Champion and
Tag Team Champion (w/ Gary Mex Glazner), at Taos Poetry Circus.